Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead
Parsons Corporation23 days ago
Reston, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$148k - $267k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the analytics services portfolio, including user-facing analytics, search and aggregation, event rollups, telemetry analytics, APM services, and visualization interfaces.
- Lead the design and delivery of Java-based microservices supporting analytics, search, aggregation, and reporting workflows.
- Define analytics architecture, data models, service contracts, indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategies across distributed deployments.
- Tune analytic queries and service interactions to meet strict performance, latency, and SLA requirements.
- Operate analytics microservices, including service health, scalability, observability, incident analysis, and root-cause investigation.
- Guide dashboards, visualizations, role-specific analytics views, reporting capabilities, and analytics access patterns.
- Collaborate with data, platform, software engineering, and operations teams on ingestion pipelines, searchable data, telemetry, APM, and system reliability.
- Lead engineering teams or multi-team delivery for analytics and search platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or four additional years of experience in place of a degree.
- 10+ years of software engineering, data platform engineering, search engineering, or analytics platform experience, including 4+ years leading a major technical service area or team.
- Strong production experience building and operating analytics or search services, including Java-based backend services or microservices.
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and/or Grafana.
- Experience with indexed query optimization, field and composite aggregations, nested or document-based aggregations, rollups, summary generation, caching, and strict-latency analytics workflows.
- Experience designing analytics services for both user-facing business or mission use cases and internal operational telemetry or APM use cases.
- Strong understanding of data ingestion, indexing, retention, search relevance, performance tradeoffs, troubleshooting, and distributed-system operations.
- Experience designing role-based analytics access patterns and user-facing analytics or reporting services.
- Active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, Vue.js 3 or similar dashboard frameworks, telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, RabbitMQ or stream processing, Elasticsearch cluster optimization, RBAC, multi-tenant analytics, capacity planning, and globally distributed platform support.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan and 401(k).
- Life insurance and flexible work schedules.
- Domestic and/or international project travel may be required.
- The position requires an active TS/SCI clearance and supports Parsons’ Federal Solutions team.
About Parsons Corporation
Parsons Corporation is a public engineering and technology firm that designs, builds, and secures critical infrastructure and national security systems for government and commercial clients. It earns revenue through contracts for engineering, construction management, program management, and cyber and intelligence solutions across transportation, water, space, and defense domains. Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, it trades on the NYSE and serves U.S. government and international infrastructure owners.